Goodyear Lays Off Five Per Cent Of US Workers

“The slowing economic market” is the reason given for the news that Goodyear is to lay off 1,400 associates at five plants in the USA. The figure equates to around five per cent of the company’s US work force and Goodyear would not say whether or not the layoffs were temporary or permanent. Production at the five factories is being cut from continuous operation to five or six-day working and the layoffs follow 8,000 job losses earlier this year, mostly outside the USA.